Example Sentences

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"We were amazed to discover that our evolution experiment in tiny flasks had recapitulated the complex patterns that had been previously observed between bacteria and viruses collected at regional and transoceanic scales," said Borin.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

Within its first decade, the movie industry had recapitulated America's century-long trek westward.

From Time Magazine Archive

And all the weight, all the weariness of it, had recapitulated itself in his body; he felt the physical burden.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

But all that he had recapitulated showed how impossible it was for two men to act together who stood on so different a footing as Fox and himself.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose